Hi everyone! Welcome back. It's Soshiki_Kao,
and today I'll be teaching you how to translate your colors to value.
For this exercise, I'm just going to be using the Zenitsu piece
but you can take this method and apply it to any sketch that you create.
First, you'll want to have a few color and value studies. I've got 3 value studies, and 7 color studies.
But, even if you already have around 2 value studies and 3 color studies,
you should still be okay.
Once you have them, if you want to put them onto the same canvas.
I'll show you how I have my layers configured real quick
and then you can set up your canvas the same.
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So as you can see, I have the sketch on the top layer.
I merged the sketch to one layer for this document
just so that it's less cluttered and confusing.
Then let's start at the bottom and work our way up.
So I have a folder that I've labeled color to black-and-white.
In this folder, you can see that I've got 5 of my color studies here.
Ones that I felt had a bit more of a different value structure.
If you turn this layer to black and white,
you can see that the value structures of the color palettes still stay.
So, like with this darker color study,
the values overall are darker.
You can either set each layer individually to black and white.
but I'm just going to set my whole folder to black and white.
Then you can toggle through and see the value structure of each color palette.
I'll turn this folder off now, and above this
we have the values.
So I put each value study into its own separate folder
just because having a bunch of layers can get really confusing.
If we just turn on the values right now,
they don't look too impressive.
This is because this is the method I used where you build over the color.
So since we don't have the colors down underneath
we just have these shading layers.
So what will need to do is go back and turn on the layer beneath
and then it'll look better.
But the issue with having these layers in a folder is that
each layer has it's own blending mode.
So there's some set to multiply, overlay, etc. But, being in a folder set to normal,
It cancels out their effects. So
So, what do you want to do
to see the full scale of the value study,
is to simply drag the layers out of the corresponding folder
and then you can see the true value structure.
I'll show you another value structure
just for another example.
So again, the values don't look too impressive right now,
but if we just turn on the layer beneath,
it starts to help.
And again pull up the values out of their folder and now we can see the real values again.
Next, the folder above contains all of the color studies.
So I've got them right here.
Remember the method I showed you in the last video
where I overlayed one color study to another and then set the layer blending mode to color?
I'll show you this once again,
So, let's turn on this folder and choose the dark color study.
Then go up to the top folder
and turn on that color variation.
Next when I set the layer to color you can see the color palette
with a different value structure.
And it doesn't matter if the layer beneath is set to black and white
or colors because the layer blending mode setting, "color", doesn't look at the colors of the layer beneath
but at the values.
So when I change it to black and white,
there's no difference.
Overlaying the same color study
to its corresponding value structure,
just turns it back to the normal colors.
But you can play around with switching the other layers in the folder to set the color
and see what kind of variations you like.
And if you ever forget what the original colors look like at any time,
just switch the layer blending mode on the top folder back to normal.
Then, once you find a combination that you like,
you can incorporate the value studies by simply pulling the layers out of their folder to see the effects.
You can switch on and off the layers in the top folder
as well as the layers in the bottom folder.
Then it's really just playing around
until you find a combination that you like.
So, let's say in the end,
I settle for this blue-brown color combination
with the value structure of the purpley-red color palette.
I can use these colors now
as the base colors for my illustration
and I also have a sense of what colors to use for our shading as well.
Through this method
you can create multiple different color studies with value structures very easily.
So that's basically it for this video.
It's a lot of prep work at the beginning
but the more prep work you do now,
the easier the later steps will become.
So now we've created our illustration concept, sketched it out,
done some value and color variations, and even learned how to incorporate values to our color studies.
Since all of the prep work is finished,
in the next video, we'll finally be able to go in
and really start to tackle the line art for illustration.
In the meantime, if you have any questions or want to share some color or value variations that you did
or get opinions, I'll be happy to.
Otherwise, I'll see you in the next video!